After demobilisation, he took up a partnership with the
ship owners Edward Bates & Sons, but following the death, in 1957, of another uncle, he moved, with his family, to Gyrn Castle, Holywell, Clwyd, where he succeeded in developing the farming, fishing and shooting potential of an estate much reduced in size by death duties. He also held a number of directorships, including that of the Globe Insurance Company.
High Sheriff, Flintshire, 1969.

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty
while attacking a strong enemy position. Though two platoons were forced
"back", he took the position with the remaining two under very heavy
machine-gun fire and held on to it. He showed fine courage and powers of
command.

served
as code breaker with 8th Army (Western Desert) & 14th Army (India/Burma)

01.01.1949

Regular
Army Reserve of Officers

S.O.I.
(Senior Officer) with Foreign Office with the remit to resuscitate the Rhineland
Universities of Cologne and Bonn, 1946-1950.Published: Secret communications : the hidden source of information
through the ages, from the Sumerians to the Cold War (1995); In the beginning
(2002)

Beckwith-Smith,Merton Beckwith
"Becky"
Only son of late Beckwith Beckwith­Smith (1849-1926), and Georgina Butler
Moore (died 1942), of Aberarder.
Married (14.03.1918, London) Honor Dorothy, only child of late
John Blundell Leigh; two sons, two daughters.

11.07.1890Chelsea district, Greater London
[baptized at Cuckfield]
-
11.11.1942
in a PoW camp in the Far East
[Sai
Wan War Cemetery, Hong Kong, V.H.1]

2nd Lt. (prob)

03.08.1910
[18095]

2nd Lt.

01.08.1912

T/Lt.

03.11.1914-17.12.1914

Lt.

18.12.1914

T/Capt.

10.06.1915-26.09.1915

Capt.

23.02.1916

T/Maj.

27.08.1917-08.08.1920

Maj.

30.11.1925

local Lt.Col.

15.10.1926-14.10.1930

Bt. Lt.Col.

01.07.1930

Lt.Col.

01.10.1932

Col.

01.10.1934,
seniority 01.07.1933

T/Brig.

12.12.1938-13.07.1940

A/Maj.Gen.

14.07.1940

Maj.Gen.

02.08.1940, dated
14.07.1940, seniority 04.08.1938

DSO

1914

?

MC

04.06.1917

?

MID

04.01.1917

?

MID

01.08.1946

Malaya
42 [posthumously]

-

Ntce

20.12.1940

"name
brought to notice" in recognition of distinguished services in
connection with operations in the field 03-06.40

Assistant to Chief Staff Officer
(Salary Scale of Class), Ministry of Defence (1949).
A grandchild writes: "I
have some of his records including attachments to the War Rooms and going on the
war conferences as a private Secretary to General Ismay."

Beer,
Peter Francis Snell
Son of John T. Beer, and Winifred L.M. Snell.

posted to Lochailort in Scotland in 1941, Highworth,
Wiltshire in late 1941 and then posted to Burma from 1942-43; after that he was
sent to Cape town from Deolali in India having dysentery, malaria and
tuberculosis

Beer,
Thomas Alfred
Son (with two brothers and three sisters) of Percy Thomas Beer (1887-1944),
and Annie Elizabeth Cordell (1887-1975).
Married (17.03.1940, South Western Essex district) Gladys Shuttleworth
(02.03.1918 - 12.02.2006), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Arthur
Henry Shuttleworth (1879-1958), and Sarah Louisa Rice (1879-); one son.

His son writes: "I know he volunteered in June
1939, and was attached in the early part of the war to the Lancashire Fusiliers.
Served in France after D-Day, Belgium and Germany, discharged in early 1946."

HM's birthday 57: for services to the European
Movement [investiture 16.07.57]

CMG

01.06.1953

HM's coronation: for services to the Economic League for
European Co-operation

MC

16.08.1917

*

MC

22.06.1918

**

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to
duty. During a very heavy bombardment of his battery he showed the greatest
courage and promptitude in extinguishing fires amongst camouflage and
ammunition. He also brought under cover a sergeant who was badly wounded.
His energy prevented the destruction of much ammunition and material.
** For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Whilst acting as forward
observation officer he maintained his communications for four hours under a
heavy barrage, and sent back much useful information. On the infantry being
forced to withdraw, he manned a trench with his observation post party, in
addition to which he maintained communication with his battery, which was
thus able to do great execution in the enemy ranks. On the following day,
although all communication was cut, he succeeded in keeping a line in
working order for a period of ten hours, thus enabling artillery fire to be
brought to bear on hostile attacks. His fearlessness and determination were
magnificent and his energy unremitting.

General Reserve of Officers (renamed: Regular Army Reserve of Officers)

10.05.1939

commissioned, Territorial Army

24.08.1939

mobilized TA

1939

-

1940

regimental officer Belgian Campaign and Dunkirk

02.07.1940

-

(04.1941)

General Staff Officer (GSO) with GHQ, British
Expeditionary Force

served, Auxiliary Units

(04.1944)

-

(04.1946)

unemployed list

Permanent Secretariat of League of Nations (ILO),
1921-1924; representing League of Nations at numerous International conferences;
occasional lecturer London School of Economics; instrumental in forming National
Housing Committee, 1934, and Army League, 1937; Vice-President European League
for Economic Co­operation; Chairman Central and Eastern European
Commission, 1952; Vice-Chairman and one of founder members of European Movement;
Chief Organiser Commonwealth Conference of European League for Economic
Co­operation, 1951, and Central and Eastern European Conference, 1952, Chairman:
European Industrial Conference, 1958; Political and Economic Conference of the
Seven, 1960; Conference on Central and Eastern Europe. Brussels, 1963;
Conference on European Co-operation in Advanced Technology, 1965; European
Telecommunications Conference, 1967. Former President, Army League; President of
the European Atlantic Group. Chairman: Jeremiah Ambler Ltd; Ocean Trust Co. Ltd;
Bedco Ltd.Published: Look back, look forward (1963); Why
Britain must join Europe (1966); numerous articles on political and economic
questions.

instructor at a bridging school that had been moved
from North Africa to Capua, thirty odd kilometres north of Naples; then Adjutant
to the Bengal Sappers and Miners of 8th Indian Division in the middle of the
Battle of Cassino

Became a successful businessman in the Northampton
area, a director of the footwear manufacturer Phipps and Son and, after a
merger, a board member of Chamberlain Phipps. Retired 1983 to Great Brington.
Published: Troop leader : a tank commander's story (2005).

Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1938-2002, formerly
President and Tutor of Magdalene College, University Lecturer in History,
1947-79, Senior Proctor, 1963-64.Published: The early Dominicans (1937; thesis); First class
answers in history (1974; ed.); Ultra in the West : the Normandy campaign 1944-45 (1979);
Ultra and Mediterranean strategy (1989); Behind the battle :
intelligence in the war with Germany, 1939-45 (1994); Intelligence
investigations : how Ultra changed history (1996).

commissioned,
Chaplains Department of the Territorial Force (Church of England)

17.01.1941

commissioned,
Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency
commission]

The Imperial War Museum hold a collection of letters, diaries,
photographs and other material covering his service as a Territorial Force Army
Chaplain in the First World War while attached to the 1/3rd East Lancashire
Brigade RFA (42nd Division) in Egypt (September 1914 - April 1915) and at
Gallipoli (May - September 1915), and then on the Western Front with the 13th
and 14th Battalions, York and Lancaster Regiment (94th Infantry Brigade, 31st
Division), June 1916 - September 1917, at 94th Brigade Headquarters, September -
December 1917, and with the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards (4th Guards Brigade,
31st Division), March 1918 - March 1919, containing much detail about his work
as a padre, especially conducting funerals, and with many excellent references
to Army life in the front line, civilian conditions in Egypt, Frae and Germany
(1919) and harrowing descriptions of the sights and sensations of the fighting
on the Suez Canal, at Gallipoli and in France, with specific reference to the
Third Battle of Krithia (June 1915), the Battle of the Somme (1916) and the
German offensive on the Lys (April 1918); also papers relating to his service as
a chaplain during the Second World War, principally while attached to SHAEF
(November 1944 - June 1945) at Versailles, France and, from May 1945, in
Frankfurt, Germany, with details of civilian conditions and VE Day thanksgiving
services.